Can you imagine how different society would look without the ingrained assumption that acting like a callous, shouty asshole is a super-common, largely unavoidable and maybe even necessary side-effect of how (overwhelmingly male) leaders do Good Leading? I mean, goddamn.
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It's completely fucked, and there's so many correspondingly terrible intersections of prejudice and class that make the whole thing even worse for various individuals, but god. What's almost worse than the problem itself is how rarely we acknowledge it as a problem at all.
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By which I mean: even if we *do* call out particular individuals in a meaningful way, it's usually just as that - as INDIVIDUALS, and not as people whose behaviour is both fundamentally excused and cultivated by various social systems as a whole.
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Anyway. That's me done ranting for the night. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Saturday.
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I once had a boss shove a burning hot baking pan just pulled out of the oven into my bare hands and never even got an apology from the motherfucker. He was "helping."
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